As you can see in the above “matrix” (actually just a spreadsheet tally where they can enter any un-verifiable information they want) there were only THREE RFIs for the entire first FIVE MONTHS of the year.
Three. And by the looks of their “matrix”, all three of them happened in May! So that would be ZERO RFIs over the first four months of 2023. Incredible.
If they were getting all of these multiple RFIs from the governor on a weekly basis, that number should be more like 70 or 80 RFI for the first five months of the year.
Back from vacation. So many things in the hopper! Where to start?? Well, let’s start with the LEDC.
Starting last month, the LEDC added a little section to their packets showing an “economic development matrix” scorecard. See page 33.
According to them, last month (May 2023) there were 20 to 35 jobs announced and there was also $700,000 of capital investment added to the tax rolls.
The question is:when was it “announced” and who is it? I sure don’t remember any big announcements in the Dispatch back in May about any company (or companies) creating 20 to 35 jobs and plopping down almost a million bucks in “capital investment”
Could this just be late reporting on Starbucks opening up? A Starbucks that would have opened with or without the LEDC. So is the LEDC yet again taking credit for “work” they had nothing to do with?
OR….
Is this the secret new Business Pork tenant? Is the LEDC is totally jumping the gun crowing about bullshit jobs that haven’t even been created yet? The kinds of phantom jobs like the “up to 200 jobs” local scumworm Mike Cour lied about three years ago?
A request to the City has gone unanswered – just like my requests from the City’s hack attorney JC Brown about City emails and Biz Park information!
It’s pretty safe to say that anything Comrade Clayton hates, I love…like voter ID laws, a protected national border, the female body and defunding CRT/DEI bullshit as well as “diversity offices”….
DEI bureaucrats have never produced anything of value in any institution or corporation that employs them. They have negative impact on the bottom line. No skills or value are lost when their employment is terminated. If Comrade Clayton was ever tossed out of his mom’s house and forced to fend for himself, I could see him trying to land a bullshit “job” in some DEI grift somewhere. It’s the perfect job for a talentless, clueless retard like him.
DEI is shite. CRT is shite. You should be promoted on your merit, not the color of your skin. There is no “systemic racism” in this country – that is a pile of shit. Don’t like it? Head on out to California, douche bags.
Actually, there is systemic racism – just not against the race you think. Try being an Asian applying to Harvard. Good luck. You may be the smartest dude on the planet, but sorry – we put a black guy in your spot with mediocre scores because….racism, or something.
More than a few hard-core lefty scum in this town have publicly come out against “book banning” – which isn’t about actually banning books but about keeping age-appropriate material away from little kids.
Just like the Marxist scum can’t tell the difference between LEGAL and ILLEGAL immigrants, they are also incapable of understanding the difference between “books kept away from 5-year-olds in a school library” and “banned book nobody is allowed to read.” The first one is what is actually happening. The second one is a lie. There ARE no “banned books” in America, you moron – you can get on Amazon right now and buy any book you want.
Cool story bro. Are those books in the libraries of German schools and available to 5-year-olds? Oh no they aren’t- they are in a regular bookstore.
Dipshit Lucas even ADMITS it in a post – “Every book you dumb asses are banning is freely available on the Internet” – which means, by definition, it isn’t banned.
Moron
Then again, what do you expect from a guy who thinks he has a “soar” throat…
That’s what happens when you swallow your husband’s sword all day, buddy
They are weirdly upset that very young kids are having porn filth kept out of their hands. Bruce Haywood is against it. Clayton Tucker is against it. Andrew Landrum is also against it.
But the most vociferous opponent of it is none other than Grady “Man Gravy” Lucas – a local creep who is also HUGE on letting grown men dress like whores and grind their junk into the faces of little kids.
No, it’s about drag queens and 6-year-olds
Here is some of the filth that DeSantis is keeping away from little kids. Remember this when you hear lefty scum like Lucas and Tucker cry about banning books.
Of 165 books “banned” (removed from promoted lists and under 3rd grade libraries) 161 were deemed pornographic. You can’t read them in PTA meetings or on YouTube.
Of course, if you look like this, I already know you are a creepy perv before you even open your mouth about loving drag shows and gay porn for 6-year-olds…
Grady Lucas wants 6-year-olds reading gay porn.
There once was a moron named Grady
Who preferred that his men dress like ladies
If you have a kid
I’d keep them well hid
‘Cause he looks like he’s pretty damned shady
Liberal white women: nature’s most destructive force
This isn’t about books being “banned” or drag shows – it’s about perverted weirdos like Grady Lucas normalizing fucked-up behavior with kids. Be sure you understand their ulterior motives.
Yeah, the federal government is so wise and competent! We should DEFINITELY let them run our retirement, our health care, our education, our transportation and basically every single facet of our lives. Super good idea!
OpenTheBooks.com auditors quantified the improper and mistaken payments admitted to by the 17 largest federal agencies. It amounts to a staggering $2.9 trillion since 2004, when the totals are adjusted for inflation.
Last year, in 2022, improper and mistaken federal payments totaled $247 billion. That’s about $20.5 billion per month, or more than $675 million every, single day.
What exactly is an improper payment? Federal law defines the term as “payments made by the government to the wrong person, in the wrong amount, or for the wrong reason.”
In other words, a corner grocery store has better accounting controls than our $6.82 trillion U.S. federal government had in 2021.
The biggest offenders: the Departments of Human & Human Services (HHS), Treasury, Labor (DOL), and Education (ED); and the Small Business Administration (SBA).
Improper payments in health care are especially troubling. In 2011, when President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Congress vowed to help pay for it by rooting out waste, fraud, corruption and taxpayer abuse from the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
That never happened.
In fact, the improper payments within these programs soared from $64 billion in 2012 to $136 billion today.
How did the feds waste our money in 2022? Covid-aid programs, as the GAO has said, were especially susceptible to mistakes. Those were in addition to the perennial botched spending.
For starters, dead people received $533 million in benefits: social security payments, federal pensions, and old-age, survivors, and disability insurance kept flowing long after these Americans were gone.
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A few more egregious examples:
The Small Business Administration made improper payments through seven of its programs. The Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, was designed to help small businesses keep employees during the draconian shutdown measures. But it misspent more than $29 billion—$16.5 billion through “unknown” payments, and $12.5 billion by “improper” payments. (The SBA Inspector General has also admitted to $100 billion in fraudulent aid, including $78.1 billion in PPP fraud.)
The Department of Labor spent $18.9 billion incorrectly. Federal State Unemployment Insurance, a program that historically makes up most of the total improper payments, did so again. (Current estimates are $400 billion in unemployment fraud!)
At the Social Security Administration, the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program flubbed $2.5 billion, while Supplemental Security Income sent $4.9 billion astray.
14 Department of Agriculture programs botched $19 billion worth of spending. The Farm Service Agency Coronavirus Food Assistance Program mis-spent $743 million.
The Commodity Credit Corporation Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage lost $379 million.
The Department of Education admitted that nearly $6 billion went wrong from funds earmarked for “COVID-19 recovery and rebuilding efforts.” Pell Grants, meanwhile, wasted $586 million.
These are just a few of the seemingly endless examples. Read through all of them here.
City attorney JC Brown recently informed my lawyer that she would be DELIGHTED to serve up all the information I have requested (from emails written by CITY EMPLOYEES on the CITY’S taxpayer-funded email servers) just as soon as I pay $1,220 to the City.
How did they arrive at that ridiculous $1,220 figure? Why, they need to spend 56 hours (at $15 per hour) REDACTING ALL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.
LOL
Who decides what’s confidential? They do, of course. What a great deal for me!
Lemme get this straight. I request a keyword search through the City’s email system (which is public domain, imho) and you tell me “sure buddy! But we’ll need $1,220 so we can black out all the information you want.”
Does she have rocks in her head??
I might direct the esteemed Ms Brown to the City of Lampasas Official Personnel Policy – which I have posted here for download…
Go take a gander at section 2.15 “Use of City computers, Internet access and ELECTRONIC MAIL“
It reads in part:
“..because all computer systems are City property, there is no expectation of privacy for an employee using these systems…”
Sounds pretty clear to me.
In fact, I used this EXACT SAME TACTIC in early 2019 to get my hands on the embarrassing truth about the Azbell Electronics grotesque $96,000 no-bid contract. There was some embarrassing stuff in there, including irrefutable evidence that Finley deGraffenreid was a bald-faced liar. But they STILL didn’t have the balls to try and redact it – because legally (imho), they cannot. You are literally WARNED as an employee NOT to expect privacy with your emails.
Now, the LEDC and City council pull their protective “Executive Session” all the time to discuss “economic incentives” and other secret stuff. OK fine – that is the law. It is like a magic cloak they invoke (yes, they have to declare it publicly) and can say anything they want behind closed doors in secret. There is not a damn thing I can do about that.
BUT, when you are discussing ANYTHING in writing on the City computer system during work hours (paid for and maintained by the taxpayers at great expense), you are now in the public domain, and thus fair game. Finley may feel like the Pope sitting up there giving orders all day, but at the end of the day, he is an employee and his absurd compensation package (salary and benefits over $200,000 per annum) is paid for by the citizens…as is the City email system and servers.
I suspect some of the newer or dumber employees [**cough** Ward ** cough**] didn’t get the message. They weren’t here in 2019 when I caught them all with their pants down. Looks like I may get them a second time. We shall see.
She says it with such authority! The property has been purchased!!
Only it hasn’t been purchased.
So one of two things is true: Jennifer was either deliberately lying to scare off any “competition,” or she had no clue about anything and just made it up on the spot. A fabrication, if you will.
According to the City, the property has NOT been sold. The original “plan” continues uninterrupted. Of course, the plan has not been followed at all, since there is no RV/Boat storage in operation over there – just some random shit that violates the $7,000 agreement drawn up by the City’s hack lawyer JC Brown.
Don’t forget that Martin Rod and Custom had the taxpayers shell out $38,300 to clean the site up so he could run an RV and boat storage business – but as you can see, that never happened. More tax dollars down the toilet:
Zero boats. Zero RVs.
In essence, Martin gets a free option to buy the land in the future for $165,000 – but it has NOT happened yet, according to the City secretary.
My advice to Rich Drettwan? Go for it, man! Open that cigar shop NOW and beat them to the punch. God knows there are enough empty buildings in town you could use!
Oh goodness. I can’t keep up with the shifting narratives these days.
Ooooh! You MFers better check yourselves!! Or you’ll be answering to THIS:
Don’t let the bird chest, narrow shoulders, 10-inch biceps or the manfupa fool you. He ain’t playin. He’ll put your head between his knees and crush you using the motion he has perfected on the women’s adductor machine at the gym.
Talk about a gullible dunce! He fell for the Covid masks, he fell for the Covid “vaccine”, he fell for socialism, he fell for the “insurrection” narrative, he fell for the Russia Hoax. He swallows it ALL as easily and quickly as he swallows Beto’s cock.
Now he believes that a photo of 6 or 7 idiots (who are very likely Federal agents) represents the entire GOP.
OK then. Did they look anything like this?
Just a bunch of “nazis” hanging out. Us guys always wear the same sunglasses, watches, and look like Mormons fresh from the gym
Yeah, a half-dozen yaloos with some fresh-out-of-the-box nazi flags who are covering their faces are definitely “the entire Republican Party.”
You know why their faces are covered? Because the Feds are learning from their other staged “nazi” shit where people immediately recognized them as Feds or lefty groups. Remember this one? Comrade Clayton fell for that shit too!
LOL. The ridiculous tiki torch “white supremacists” who actually turned out to be far-left democrats putting on a show. They only admitted it was a “stunt” after they were caught red-handed pretending to be Republican nazis or something.
Then we had “The Patriot Front” – another fake group…likely feds. It’s just like all the race hoax bullshit, the Marxists need to make up threats to justify their abuse of political opponents because the supply of “racism” FAR outstrips the demand by the media…
But the Marxists and commies have ZERO shame. They get caught red-handed lying, cheating, pulling staged bullshit, grooming kids, etc – and they are RIGHT BACK AT IT the very next day.
We’ve seen this stunt before: A handful of people all masked…trying to get the media to think that Nazis support a specific candidate.
You know it’s staged.
We know it’s staged.
So let’s stop pretending everyone is stupid and believes this crap.
You know what’s even funnier? Every single Democrat in Lampasas County is represented by this moron. Not only is your Chairman an avowed socialist, but he is a very unintelligent and gullible one, at that.
She was not a real teacher, but rather a commie agitator from Oregon and California who clearly was just looking for an easy paycheck to pay her rent while she indoctrinated little kids with commie horseshit.
Commie shit sack now jobless. I love it.
In a beautiful series of events, she was canned by the Austin school system. You REALLY have to be a nutjob to be fired by your fellow commies in Austin. But her bigger sin was embarrassing her superiors with her moronic TikTok video.
It is worth a read. She was shocked…SHOCKED…that she was canned, even though it states EXPLICITLY in the rules that she shouldn’t be doing that TikTok crap. So delicious.
“I’ve been coming to the capitol and advocating for teachers. And so often I was the only teacher in the room giving testimony on policies that would affect teachers directly in the classroom,” she said.
So she gets to do what she wanted all along: be a full-time piece of shit political parasite. With any luck, she will get hit by a bus on Congress Ave and do us all a favor.
It might have been: after INCREASING 8.7% YOY last month,Lampasas has shown NEGATIVE sales tax receipt growth for the first time in a LONG time. [see row 585]
Receipts last May were $237,387 and this May was $233,865.
Considering inflation is still running around 7%, the REAL sales tax decline is more like 8.5%
Bump in the road or is recession finally sinking in? Just wait until all those student loan deadbeats have to start paying the loans again in a couple months. That certainly won’t help things at all either.
